This is the first
drabble I ever created for Gargoyles. (For those of you who haven't
heard the term "drabble" before, it's a short-short story, a
fic written in exactly 100 words. Beyond the 100-word rule, anything
goes.) It had been previously posted as part of an Author's Note,
to 'sweeten the deal' for FFnet as it requests all postings to
have at least an element of fiction for the reader's entertainment.
But enough people said they liked it that, now that I've removed
the note, I've decided to leave the drabble in. It's not part of
"Passing Glances" because that series of drabbles deals
specifically with my characters, both gargoyle and human, at a
certain point in time in the "Life Goes On" saga. This one is
more of a glimpse into someone's character, a basic part of their
mindset.

This had originally
been titled simply "Elisa" but is now called "Elisa: Proud":

She doesn't
show it often, but she is proud of her heritage. Proud of her
ancestors, and the cultures they had created on their respective
continents before the white man came along and overwhelmed them.

She is even more
proud of her mother and father, and the life they made for themselves
in the white man's world, proving by example that skin color has no
bearing on what one can truly achieve... or whom one can love.

She is proud to be
half-Black, half-Indian… and all human.

But sometimes she can't
help wishing she still had a gargoyle's leathery wings.

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